We are celebrating a year well-lived.
It wouldn't have been such an exciting year without our BIG move. We left our awesome house and wonderful friends in Virginia to move to Seattle (Southern Alaska). It has been an amazing year full of new adventures and new friends to share it with. This book contains our happy times spent together as a family.
We are living the life!
i kind of really like the Christmas card this year.
maybe it is because we were able to highlight yet again the beautiful area we live in. last year it was the beach of north carolina, before that lincoln’s monument and the year before that the washington monument.
maybe it could also be because the kids are still in their cute, young stage of life. love their faces.
for our family it was another one of those really eventful, life changing years.
we are grateful for ever single bit of 2012 and for those near and far who we got to share it with.
moves are never easy.
after saying good-bye to so many friends we deeply cared for and shared our last 4 years with we are now in a new home in a new state sharing new experiences. everything may be familiar to me since these are my stomping grounds, but for my Virginia kids, it’s still not home yet. it’s getting there.
over the past four weeks we have found a lot to love about our new place.
family, friends and beautiful sunshine. they make us smile.
all. the. time.
we also love:
the mariners.
dad’s new ride!
raspberry picking….more like raspberry eating. his bucket was empty when we left.
playing at the house after lacrosse camp
snake hunts.
so far we have collectively found 11 snakes in our backyard
hanging out.
finding new friends in the neighborhood.
finding fresh air among the stinky, sweaty kids hiking the cascade mountains.
swim lessons with grandma bean!
lake day with 5 brave boys, grandpa bishopp, and me.
a new uncle
a new hair-do, her first piggy's!
visiting with friends
exploring jetty island, wa
he so kindly plopped this crab on dad’s plate for dinner.
there are books full of adventures that we have yet to explore.
what will we find next to LOVE?
